Some of you might be asking yourself, at this very moment: is Pennsylvania a good place?

The answer is unequivocally yes… if you know where to locate the best places to live in Pennsylvania.

Lucky for you, we’re here to help you identify the best counties to live in the Keystone State based on the most recently available data from the Census. And this isn’t our first rodeo — we’ve been helping people find the best places to live in America for years.

So, the question becomes, if you wanted to relocate to the best pat of Pennsylvania, where would you go? To answer that we looked at crime, cost of living, and demographic data for all 62 counties in the state.

After the analytic dust settled, we identified the 10 best counties to live in Keystone State for 2018:

How do you determine which Pennsylvania county is the best?

To give you the best county in Pennsylvania, we have to look at a handful of metrics that signal the quality of a place. To do that, we need to make some assumptions about what’s a ‘best county’ and what isn’t. And, for reference, we are trying to make the kind of argument you’d make at a bar using facts, don’t take this analysis to court.